Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to stockpiling and/or sharing particular web content on a web server managed by a website hosting company. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a glimpse at them. In this way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a web portal, mail aliases, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by certain vendors, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services often include adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely erroneous explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the workload between individual sets of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you would like to share a large amount of images with friends or acquaintances since the service is commonly free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your email address accounts. Some companies provide website hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up email accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to own as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to run a web site. To some degree, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and e-mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At Lonex, for example, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular web content exclusively.